Engine
INDMAR 380 HAMMERHEAD
Total Power
340hp
Engine Hours
523
Class
Ski and Wakeboard
Length
23ft
Year
2004
Model
XTI Wakesetter
Capacity
-
2004 MALIBU WAKESETTER XTI
INDMAR 383 HAMMERHEAD ENGINE
MALIBU TANDEM AXLE TRAILER
Malibu didn't need to redesign its Wakesetter 23XTi. After all, the existing 23-footer took this magazine's 2002 Tow Boat of the Year honor and reportedly sold well. But that didn't stop the company's design team, which has proven itself to be long on ambition and short on complacency, from revamping the direct-drive model.
Changes for the 2004 offering include a new, beamier hull, which means more open interior space in a model that, because of its center sun pad and seating configuration, could use it. Those seats received an upholstery upgrade in the form of 38-ounce French-stitched G & T vinyl. The shifter knob at the helm station, which had a freshly minted two-tone dash with gauges in new chrome bezels, now matches the line-connection knob on the pop-up tow pylon, as well as the connection knob on the new aluminum IllusionX wakeboard tower, which has internally routed wires for the stereo speakers and lights mounted on it.
Towed Sports
The Wakesetter 23XTi was designed primarily for pulling wakeboarders—the tower, the Wedge wakeboard hydrofoil, the new bow ballast system and the boat's name are dead giveaways—but that doesn't mean it can't handle slalom duty. Our ski tester gave high marks to the boat for its flat, soft wakes at shorter line lengths. The wakes were equally harmless at the longest line length—60 feet—but our test skier found the rooster tail back there a bit distracting. Speed control was no problem thanks to the boat's PerfectPass system.
On the wakeboarding side, the Wakesetter 23XTi was phenomenal. With the Wedge down, easily accomplished via the trapdoor in the fiberglass swim platform, and the ballast tanks full, the boat pumped out tall wakes with kicker lips that launched our boarder into the sky. The pull out of the hole in deep-water starts was solid.
Our ski and wakeboard pilots raved about the boat's drivability. One even compared the feeling he got at the helm to the feeling he gets every day behind the wheel of his Chevy Tahoe. Our observer, too, found the Wakesetter 23XTi uncommonly comfortable and said the tow-line attachment on the pylon and the tower was a breeze. The ski-test team members also praised the extensive stowage they found under the center and aft sun pads, in an in-sole ski locker, behind the observer's seat, and under almost every cushion in the boat.
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